Tengu Top Bedroom

Tengu taken root in my household

Haunted tower loud gauntling hour 

Sky bruised as a mugged rib 

Cleaner asks was I last night late walking around the garden 

Denying charge ask why, more disarmingly after denying me

She tells me muddy footprints surround my only son’s cot.


Last night the weather was potty

Nobody went outside this cottage 

You can ask Mrs Potter

I grant that authority

I will ask her, if you please

Indeed, clears catarrh calls, clarion voice well carries

Come in here please, dear

Mrs Potter anticipating orders and needs carries tea on a tray, biscuits between

Sweet treats, glazed in sugar jam-centred lemon-scented feastballs as delight on Hallow fall

She makes it well, loathing the lecture he cannot help but deliver

His lapis lap cushion Frankenstein headtop stump of a worthy lectern 

She holds her tongue, Hannibal Lecter, at ninety percent of his invectice 

Occasionally erupting, salvo of spent shells sitting room distressed.

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